Frequently asked questions

Google Scholar alerts are keyword matches: they need you to already know the right query terms, and they flood you with every paper that mentions them. FeedScholar uses AI to pick only the handful of new papers that fit your research, each with a short reason it was picked.

FeedScholar covers new papers across the journals of your field, and each subfield page lists the main journals it follows. If we missed a source that matters in your subfield, tell us and we'll add it.

On Basic and Pro, your ratings shape your feed. A thumbs-up brings more papers like that one, and a thumbs-down brings fewer. On any plan you can also edit your profile directly at any time.

Yes. The free plan is a monthly digest of the top 5 papers in your subfield, free forever, with profile editing. Paid plans send weekly or monthly, your choice, with sub-area precision and learning from your ratings, and add depth today: digest history, coverage review, and saved-paper tags and notes. Every plan can talk with a paper: 1 paper a month on Free, 10 papers a month on Basic, and unlimited papers (fair use) on Pro. More research areas are coming soon.

Civil engineering is live today. Every other field has a waitlist, and the waitlist counts decide which discipline we build next, so joining it is the strongest vote you can cast.

About two minutes. You answer a short questionnaire about your subfield, methods, and the papers you couldn't afford to miss; a live preview shows your real feed before you ever give an email address.

Yes. Your profile (subdiscipline, methods, materials, keywords, and seed papers) is fully visible and editable, with a live preview of how each change shifts your feed.

One click, from any digest email or from your account page. If you cancel a paid plan, the free monthly digest keeps arriving; if you unsubscribe entirely, sending stops immediately.